, 1887-06-25
TOW TALK.
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked UP
Throughout the City.

Matinee and evening performances at
the opera house to-day.
The Alert team has already begun &C
tive practice for their big race at Kear-
ney, Neb., the latter part of next month.
Several immense cast iron pipes were
hauled out to the Cheyenne & Burlington
grade yesterday. They will be used as
culverts.
The county assessor will present the
commissioners with an elegant bouquet
Monday, in the shape of the assessment
roll for 1887.
The horse attached to the Union Mer-
camille company's delivery wagon cavort-
ed down Seventeenth street without a
driver last evening.
Tracklaying on the Cheyenne Il North
ern reach Hunton's on Thursday, when a
mile and a half was covered with iron
during working hours,
A Cheyenne blacksmith has been
working on the perpetual motion problem
for thirty-four years, and is just as conf
dent of success as ever.
The coming week will show much prog
ress in the stone work of the capitol.
Contractor Greenlee says twenty stone
cutters will by that time be employed.
Colorow, the celebrated Ute chief, who
invented chilli colorow, has been impris-
oned at the Ouray reservation, Colorado,
for melting warfare among his followers.
An alarm of fire called out the various
companies about 10 o'clock last night.
The blaze was In an old barn on the
South side, and was rather a small affair.
Willard, the Iron Duke of Sundance,"
who whilom welded the editorial pen on
the Rawlins Tribune, is now INDUCING in
the recreation of herding a bunch of
sheep.
Philo L. Hall. the claimant in the
Douglas TOWNSHIP suit, which was decided
in the land Office here yesterday, is super
intendent of construction for the North
western railway.
1t is a self-evident fact hat the streets
are very dirty, to say the least. 1t is also
a deplorable coinci lence that very few
tramps stop in the city long enough to be
taken into custody.
The matinee performance to-day will
commence at half-past 2 O'Clock. The
prices Of admission are rs and so cents
The prices to this evenings performance
ara IN and Th cants and FL
Parties wishing to secure reserved seats
for the Janish performance this evening
would be wise to call at the box Office at
an early hour this morning. The adj
vance sale has been unusually large
Thos. B. Adams and several other pa
triotic gentlemen are e~ndeavoring to or
ganize a militia company. A town that
has a board OF trade should also be able
to boast of a crack militia company.
Everybody said it was hot yesterday,
anil the signal officers report proves the
unanimous assertion. The highest tenn
perature $50, at Denver it was $40, while
in Omaha the thermometer reached
ghly 70o.
Z First Vice President Potter and a party
of Union Pacific officials will arrive from
the West at 6 o'clock this morning, and
ride over the Cheyenne & Northern dur.
ing the day. They stopped at Laramie
last night. n
The Laramie Boomerang makes a Wig
orous kick" because the board of trade
Of that burg refuses to raise the cash to
employ surveyors for the purpose of run
ming preliminary routes from that city to
Denver.
Royal, owned by S. S. Walker, beat
Ninena in the one and one-eighth miles
running race at Salt Lake-in 2:O23.
S~tonewall, owned by the same gentleman,
won the 2:35 trot. Ella S won in the
2:4O pace, and Susie S in the half mile
running race.
The excursion train over the Cheyenne
X Northern railroad will leave here
promptly at 8 O'Clock Sunday morning.
Tickets are on sale at Rhodes & Troxells,
Pearse & McGilps, DR.. w. N. Hunts,
4. H. Loibey's, L. j. Towslee's and w.
NJ. MASKS. Children, half price; under
5 years, free.
Deputy. Sheriff Campbell, who arrived
from Douglas last evening, says he called
on DR.. Barber Just before he left Fetter.
man. The doctor says he believes he will
now come out all right. He is being at.
tended by a college mate who came from
Omaha to look after him.
Sachs, the proprietor OF Dyer's hotel,
says hat hereafter business will be done
on the "Kizkadee'' plan at that establish
ment. "Kizkadee" is an Egyptian term,
which being literally translated signifies
come to the front" The individual
who attempted to steal bis baggage from
that establishment last week is remem
bered by Mr.. Sachs to the amount of S55.
Rpcamter
lie e. .-.. IL. !